Name: PitPilot Prototype C
Brand: PitPilot
Availability: PreOrder

⚡ The 10-second version

Dry meat is a choice.
Stop choosing it.

Four things PitPilot does while you do literally anything else.

24/7

It watches

Pit temp via K-type thermocouple, humidity at the meat, ambient outside. Three sensors, zero lifting the lid.

PSSST

It mists

Food-safe pump fires on your schedule — every 30 minutes, on the hour, or the moment humidity drops. Apple juice, tallow spritz, your secret mix.

YELLS

It guards

Temp spikes past your target? PitPilot sprays it down, sounds the alarm, or both. You pick per cook.

LOGS

It remembers

Every cook saved: temps, mists, weather, weight. Nail brisket once, replay the exact program forever.

⚡ Three steps. That's the whole manual.

Set it. Smoke it. Sleep.

01Program the cook

Four taps: target temp, minimum mist temp, schedule, duration. Under two minutes on the built-in touchscreen — no app required, no account, no cloud.

02Walk away

PitPilot holds watch: live pit temp, humidity, weather, and a countdown to the next mist. Check it from the couch on your phone over WiFi.

03Take the credit

Perfect bark, juicy slices, and a cook log to prove it wasn't luck. Save the program and run it again next weekend, identically.

🔬 The 10-minute version

For the ones who read spec sheets for fun.

We are those people too. Everything below is real, measured, and in the firmware today.

SENSE Sensing & measurement

Pit temperature	K-type thermocouple, MAX6675 cold-junction-compensated converter, 0–1024°F range, 0.25°C resolution, 220 ms reads
Humidity + ambient	Bosch-class digital sensor at the meat shelf, ±3% RH, ±1°C
Battery	High-side current + voltage monitoring with live % on every screen
Weather	Open-Meteo over WiFi: current, 3-day, hourly rain probability — no account, no key, free forever

MIST Misting engine

Pump	12V food-safe diaphragm pump, MOSFET-switched, flyback-protected
Schedules	3 modes: clock times (WiFi-synced), fixed interval, or quick-pick (30 min / 1 hr / 2 hr / custom)
Burst length	1–300 s per cycle, guidance presets: light 3–5 s · standard 8–12 s · heavy 15–20 s
Coal protection	Minimum-temp lockout: below your floor, the mist skips instead of soaking the fire
Cycle limits	Run forever, or stop after N cycles and hand off to temp-only or humidity-only watch
Manual override	Hold-to-spray any time — never resets your countdown

GUARD Alarm logic

Over-temp	Three responses, your pick: Spray It (auto-cool until back at target), Yell At Me (full-screen alarm + buzzer), or Don't Worry
Humidity band	Set low/high %. Drift below adds mist; above skips cycles. Same three-way response choice
Hardware watchdog	Pump self-test on every boot; sensor-fault detection with on-screen flags

BRAIN Compute, UI & connectivity

Processor	ESP32 dual-core @ 240 MHz, WiFi + Bluetooth
Display	2.8" color touchscreen, 320×240, sunlight-shaded bezel, ember-animated UI with 26 purpose-built screens
Firmware	17,000+ lines, written for one job. Boot-to-cooking in seconds. No cloud dependency — WiFi adds features, never gates them
Phone view	Built-in web app at pitpilot.local — add to home screen, no store download
Cook log	Name, meat, weight, per-cook mist totals, temp avg/max, weather snapshot, duration — replay any cook in one tap
Power	Rechargeable battery + USB, charge-while-cooking
Placement	Clips beside the pit; only the stainless probe and mist line enter the heat. Electronics stay cool, battery stays safe

⚡ Two ways to never dry out a brisket again

Choose your fighter.

Prototype C

The full smart mister. Everything above, in the box, ready for smoke.

PitPilot controller + 2.8" touchscreen
K-type pit probe (stainless, grill-rated)
Food-safe pump, line & mist nozzle kit
Bottle cradle — fits a standard spray-neck bottle, mist anything
Humidity + ambient sensing, weather, cook log, phone view
Internal meat temp — probe it old-school

$— Kickstarter early-bird price revealed to the list first

Notify me at launch

Most wanted

Prototype C + Meat Probe

Everything in Prototype C, plus a wireless Bluetooth thermometer living inside the meat.

Everything in Prototype C
Wireless BT internal-temp probe — no wire through the lid
Internal temp on the PitPilot screen & phone view
Doneness alerts: pull-temp alarm with carryover heads-up
Mist logic that can react to the meat itself, not just the pit

$— Kickstarter early-bird price revealed to the list first

Notify me at launch

🔥 Why we give a damn

Born at 2 a.m., next to a smoker.

Every pitmaster knows the ritual: the alarm at 2 a.m., the flashlight walk to the pit, the spritz bottle, the guess. Is it too dry? Did the temp creep? Should I have come out an hour ago?

"We didn't want to automate the craft. We wanted to automate the anxiety."

PitPilot started as a pile of parts on a workbench and a stubborn belief: the craft of BBQ is fire management, seasoning, patience, and taste — and none of that requires losing sleep to hold a spray bottle. So we built the tool we wanted: obsessively detailed where it matters (read the spec sheet — we dare you), dead simple where it counts (four taps and walk away).

Every screen, every alarm, every timing mode in this thing exists because one of us stood next to a real fire and wished for it. This is Prototype C — the third full rebuild — and the first one good enough to put your name on a brisket.

Dry meat is a choice.Stop choosing it.